Just because we are not Italian, does not mean we cannot appreciate Michelangelo, it is the same with cuisine. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
As a chef I’m not your dietitian or your ethicist, I’m in the pleasure business. — Anthony Bourdain Business Copy Share Image
Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don't have. — Anthony Bourdain Character Copy Share Image
I could do nothing but Brooklyn shows for the rest of my career, and I could die ignorant. — Anthony Bourdain Brooklyn Copy Share Image
If you're training in a combat sport, deliciousness takes a backseat. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
If somebody crafts an interesting tweet that'll lead me to their blog, I'm going to their blog. — Anthony Bourdain Crafts Copy Share Image
The worst, most dangerous person to America is clearly Paula Deen. — Anthony Bourdain America Copy Share Image
Being a vegan is a first-world phenomenon, completely self-indulgent. — Anthony Bourdain Being Copy Share Image
I am a delightfully evangelical guy about things I love. I am that annoying guy who sits everyone down and forces them… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
It's wrong I think, morally and annoying in general, to try to get a kid to be a foodie, so I never… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I'm not Ted Nugent. My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature. I would never… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
In fairness, you know, I'm a big believer in if your kid makes noise in the restaurant you should remove the child… — Anthony Bourdain Believer Copy Share Image
A proper saute pan should cause serious head injury if brought down hard against someone else's skull. If you have any doubts… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
My tastes in what I eat at home would be very familiar to most people who cook for families. I just organize… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I lurched away from the table after a few hours feeling like Elvis in Vegas - fat, drugged, and completely out of… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
There's always this assumption that you're going to get everything right immediately. And any professional understands that that's just not so. — Anthony Bourdain Assumption Copy Share Image
I've sat in sushi bars, really fine ones, and I know how hard this guy worked, how proud he is. I know… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living.… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Do you really want to make risotto to order when you have eight guests sitting there? No. It won't work. Most cookbooks… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Wholesome food is wholesome food anywhere. I may not like something but, generally speaking, if it's a busy, street food stall serving… — Anthony Bourdain Business Copy Share Image
It's as if Japanese men, all to aware that deep inside they'd like to stomp Tokyo flat, breathe fire, and do truly… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating… — Anthony Bourdain Cafes Copy Share Image
Assume the worst. About everybody. But don't let this poisoned outlook affect your job performance. Let it all roll off your back.… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“Everybody should come here. Everyone should see how complicated, how deeply troubled, and yet at the same time, beautiful and awesome the… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
We learn as professionals by repetition, by getting it wrong, getting yelled at and doing it again. — Anthony Bourdain Education Copy Share Image
I love New York. I'm a guy for whom a New York accent is a comforting thing. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
One of life's terrible truths is that women like guys who seem to know what they're doing. — Anthony Bourdain Feminism Copy Share Image
I don't have to agree with you to like you or respect you. — Anthony Bourdain Admiration Copy Share Image
I'd like to play bass like Bootsy Collins. I'm serious. That would be my dream. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
America's most dangerous export was, is and always will be our fast-food outlets. — Anthony Bourdain America Copy Share Image
When you have a child you're no longer the star of the movie. — Anthony Bourdain Astronomy Copy Share Image
I think it's a universal truth that most chefs I know are happiest eating simple, unadorned good things. — Anthony Bourdain Chef Copy Share Image
If people are working only rice and beans for much of their diet, it says something. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Cooking breakfast and brunch professionally really kind of ruined breakfast service for me for a long time. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
If you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Those places I don't understand, just doing bad food. It takes some doing. Making good pasta is so much easier than making… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
